Full-Time
Applied Researcher / Architect in Innovation Group

Job Description

F5’s Israel R&D Center (Atidim, Tel-Aviv) is looking for an Innovation Catalyst. This person is responsible for creating and helping to execute the vision for F5’s innovation leaps in network and web application security. The successful candidate will conduct independent and joint research, create PoCs and work closely with development managers, sales, customers and engineers to define requirements, create strategic roadmap, and enable and facilitate productization of resulting solutions to given business problems. “From problem inception to money making operational product”.

In this senior and extremely influential position there are four main pillars:

Applied Research

From problem definition to data driven and facts based “go/no-go”

Hands-on, create PoCs, build your own tools, obtain data

Analytic mind, systematic approach

Reproducible research (paper trail, data sets, tools, scripts, etc.)

Architecture

How will the fruits of the research be implemented into existing products?

Architecture roadmap of assimilation of solution into existing business or into creation of new business

Prototype solutions/algorithms as needed to help solve technical issues during development and collaborate with other architects in the Product Development organization to leverage other technologies, and share new technologies with others.

Receiving technical and business problems and creating infrastructural solutions to turn these requirements and problems into money-making features and products.

Explain and promote new technologies to other organizations and customers as needed. Be able to distill externally generated requirements into crisp, implementable designs that meet complexity and effort envelope constraints, and can be handed off to development engineers.

Entrepreneur

A bulldozer (in the positive sense: making things happen!)

Lobby: your ideas, your design, your solutions

Orchestrate collaboration within the enterprise

Proactively work towards success of your objectives

Motivate and activate others

Desired Skills and Experience

MSc or higher in Computer Sciences or equivalent.

Strong software engineering and design skills.

Scientific background: mathematically savvy, applied research.

Proven record of providing hands on technical leadership in a fast-paced organization.